…and I declare the President of Zambia to be obscene

by Violet Blue on August 7, 2009

Read this, and chant along with me “what the FUCK is wrong with people?” An African woman gave birth in a parking lot outside a hospital after being refused health care. The woman who took the photos is now in a porn trial. What’s obscene here? Here’s Editor in obscenity trial for childbirth photos:

The news editor of the Zambian newspaper The Post has gone on trial for allegedly circulating obscene material to politicians, the newspaper states on its Web site.

Zambia President Rupiah Banda has branded the childbirth photos pornographic.

In early June, Chansa Kabwela wrote to the country’s vice president, health minister and several non-governmental organizations to highlight problems in the country’s health-care system — especially the problems pregnant women faced during a strike by health-care workers.

In her letter, Kabwela included several photos of a woman giving birth in a parking lot outside a hospital from which she had been turned away, according to Reporters Without Borders.

The country’s president, Rupiah Banda, branded the photos pornographic and called for Kabwela’s arrest and prosecution, according to the press freedom organization.(…read more, cnn.com)

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1 ChicksonSpeedSpotter August 7, 2009 at 5:05 pm

In Zambia “ban the dirty pr0n” sounds like an better political rallying cry than “let’s have decent health-care for poor expecting mothers”

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